Business

It’s official: The Buckhorn plant that had been targeted for closure in December has been able to stay open under new ownership.

Macro Plastics Manufacturing Co., headquartered in San Francisco, completed its purchase recently of the facility on Pearce Industrial Boulevard in Shelby County that was owned by Buckhorn Inc. and even has hired some of that company’s former employees.

Patients of Dr. Paul Warfield were surprised when they showed up for appointments recently and saw a sign on the door of his office on Mack Walters Road informing them that he was no longer practicing in Shelby County.

Officials at Jewish Hospital Shelbyville, where Warfield also saw patients, were caught off guard, too.

Though it’s a given that people go to college in hopes of landing good jobs after graduation, students in the Machine Tool Technology program at Jefferson Community & Technical College often get a jump on strong-paying careers long before a sheepskin is placed in their hands.

Against a backdrop of high unemployment in Kentucky and across the nation, the JCTC program at the Shelbyville campus has for years been placing students with a variety of industries in the region, an